US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 27 for "Summarizing prevalent opinions for medical decision-making" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,401, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Summarizing prevalent opinions for medical decision-making" was invented by Christopher Malon (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for document summarization include splitting documents into sentences and sorting the sentences by a metric that promotes review opinion prevalence from the documents to generate a ranked list of sentences. Groups of sentences with similar embeddings are formed and a trained generalization encoder-decoder model is applied to output a common generalization of the sentences in each group. Sentences are added to a summa...